This is not just a curiosity question, but I have actually been in this situation a few times. We [believers] pay a call on the survivors of a [by all indications] unsaved person, and the survivor, being unsaved themselves, state, "I 'know' she [person's mother, etc.] is in a better place now. {They likely say that to comfort themselves, make themselves feel better.} But we, as believers, know that, if the person died unsaved, they are NOT in a better place. Now, here's the thing--we, as Christians, are to "rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those that mourn." {Also, to give comfort}. Now, it wouldn't be very "comforting," when someone says that, to blurt out, "Look, your loved one is {likely, barring a deathbed confession} in...